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Experimental evaluation of crack effects on the dynamic characteristics of a prototype arch dam using ambient vibration tests

  • Sevim, Baris;Altunisik, Ahmet Can;Bayraktar, Alemdar
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.277-294
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    • 2012
  • The aim of the study is to determine the modal parameters of a prototype damaged arch dam by operational modal analysis (OMA) method for some damage scenarios. For this purpose, a prototype arch dam-reservoir-foundation model is constructed under laboratory conditions. Ambient vibration tests on the arch dam model are performed to identify the modal parameters such as natural frequency, mode shape and damping ratio. The tests are conducted for four test-case scenarios: an undamaged dam with empty reservoir, two different damaged dams with empty reservoirs, and a damaged dam with full reservoir. Loading simulating random impact effects is applied on the dam to crack. Cracks and fractures occurred at the middle of the upper part of the dams and distributed through the abutments. Sensitivity accelerometers are placed on the dams' crests to collect signals for measurements. Operational modal analysis software processes the signals collected from the ambient vibration tests, and enhanced frequency domain decomposition and stochastic subspace identification techniques are used to estimate modal parameters of the dams. The modal parameters are obtained to establish a basis for comparison of the results of two techniques for each damage case. Results show that approximately 35-40% difference exists between the natural frequencies obtained from Case 1 and Case 4. The natural frequencies of the dam considerably decrease with increasing cracks. However, observation shows that the filled reservoir slightly affected modal parameters of the dam after severe cracking. The mode shapes obtained are symmetrical and anti-symmetrical. Apparently, mode shapes in Case 1 represent the probable responses of arch dams more accurately. Also, damping ratio show an increase when cracking increases.

Damage Analysis of Turbopump Turbine considering Creep-Fatigue effects (크리프-피로 영향을 고려한 터보펌프 터빈의 손상해석)

  • Lee, Mu-Hyoung;Jang, Byung-Wook;Kim, Jin-Han;Jeong, Eun-Hwan;Jeon, Seong-Min;Lee, Soo-Yong;Park, Jung-Sun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2010
  • Structures under high temperature may have creep behavior and fatigue behavior. Durability study of the structures need the damage analysis with the creep-fatigue effects. In this paper, the damage analysis is studied for a turbine blade in the turbopump for a liquid rocket engine which is operated under high temperature condition. First of all, the load cycle is required for defining the operational characteristics of turbopump. The thermal stress analysis is done for a turbine blade of the turbopump. The stress analysis results are used to judge damage due to the creep and the fatigue. The strain-life method with miner rule is used for fatigue damage analysis. The Larson-Miller parameter master curve and robinson rule are used for the creep damage analysis. The linear damage summation method is used to consider creep-fatigue effects of turbopump turbine. Finally, the analysis results for fatigue and the influence are compared to figure out the damage phenomenon of the turbopump turbine.

A Study of the Defrosting Control in the Application of Photoelectric Sensors (광센서를 이용한 제상제어 방법에 대한 연구)

  • Jeon, ChangDuk
    • Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.167-174
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    • 2017
  • This study attempted to investigate the value of photoelectric sensors in terms of a defrost-control method. Tests were conducted in a calorimeter room under the heating with the defrost-performance test conditions described in KS C 9306. Accordingly, the photoelectric technology is a competitive defrost-control method that can precisely control the operational defrost cycle using the output voltages that are proportional to the frost height. The heating period is gradually reduced because the complex defrost-control method, for which the sensors initiate the defrosting process and the defrosting process is terminated by the time parameter, could not adjust the net defrosting time by itself. Therefore, a complex defrost-control method, for which the photoelectric sensors start the defrosting process and it is terminated by the temperature parameter, is preferred because of the adjustment of the net defrosting time. Regardless of the defrost-control method, the first defrosting cycle is activated earlier than the times that are determined in the second and third cycles and so on, because the first operation cycle can decide the characteristics of the subsequent cycle.

Airspace Safety Assessment for Implementation of the Japanese Domestic Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum

  • Amai, Osamu;Nagaoka, Sakae
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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    • v.1
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    • pp.435-440
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    • 2006
  • The Reduced Vertical Separation Minimum (RVSM), which is the reduced minimum from 2,000 ft to 1,000 ft at flight levels (FL) between 290 and FL410 inclusive, was implemented in 30 September 2005 within the Japanese domestic airspace. Prior to the implementation, safety assessment for the airspace in assumed RVSM environments was carried out. Some model parameter values of collision risk model were estimated using flight plan (progress) data and radar data. An estimate of vertical collision risk including operational risk was calculated using these together with given parameter values. The results obtained from this analysis are as follows. (1) Contribution of the vertical collision risk for the crossing routes is about 9 percents of the total technical risk. (2) The estimate of the collision risk is $4.1{\times}10^{-9}$ [fatal accidents / flight hour] and the value is smaller than a maximum allowable level of collision risk, i.e. $5{\times}10^{-9}$ [fatal accidents / flight hour], called the Target Level of Safety.

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UPFC Device: Optimal Location and Parameter Setting to Reduce Losses in Electric-Power Systems Using a Genetic-algorithm Method

  • Mezaache, Mohamed;Chikhi, Khaled;Fetha, Cherif
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2016
  • Ensuring the secure operation of power systems has become an important and critical matter during the present time, along with the development of large, complex and load-increasing systems. Security constraints such as the thermal limits of transmission lines and bus-voltage limits must be satisfied under all of a system’s operational conditions. An alternative solution to improve the security of a power system is the employment of Flexible Alternating-Current Transmission Systems (FACTS). FACTS devices can reduce the flows of heavily loaded lines, maintain the bus voltages at desired levels, and improve the stability of a power network. The Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) is a versatile FACTS device that can independently or simultaneously control the active power, the reactive power and the bus voltage; however, to achieve such functionality, it is very important to determine the optimal location of the UPFC device, with the appropriate parameter setting, in the power system. In this paper, a genetic algorithm (GA) method is applied to determine the optimal location of the UPFC device in a network for the enhancement of the power-system loadability and the minimization of the active power loss in the transmission line. To verify our approach, simulations were performed on the IEEE 14 Bus, 30 Bus, and 57 Bus test systems. The proposed work was implemented in the MATLAB platform.

A New Conceptual Network Synchronization System using Satellite time as an Intermediation parameter (위성시각을 매개로한 신 개념의 망동기시스템)

  • Kim, Young-Beom;Kwon, Taeg-Yong;Park, Byoung-Chul;Kim, Jong-Hyun
    • Journal of The Institute of Information and Telecommunication Facilities Engineering
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.11-17
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    • 2004
  • In this paper we propose a new conceptual system for a network clock in which all node clocks are simultaneously synchronized to the national standard by intermediation parameter of satellite time. Experiments have shown the possibility of its adoption by real networks. The new proposed method has various structural benefits, in particular all node clocks can be kept at the same hierarchical quality in contrast to the existing method. The measurement results show that the accuracy of the experimental slave clock system can be kept within a few parts In 1012 and the MTIE (Maximum Time Interval Error) sufficiently meets ITU-T G.811 for the primary reference clock. A prototype system with fully automatic operational functions has been realized at present and is expected to be directly used for communication network synchronization in the near future.

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Effect of Process Variables on System Parameters in Extrusion Cooking of Corn Grit by Twin Screw Extruder (옥분 압출가공시 이축압출성형기의 운전조건에 따른 System Parameters의 변화)

  • Kim, Ji-Yong;Kim, Chong-Tai;Kim, Chul-Jin
    • Korean Journal of Food Science and Technology
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.81-87
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    • 1991
  • To examine the effect of the individual operational variables on extrusion process, test trials of the fractional factorial design of the three process variables at three levels, including feed rate, screw speed and die openings, were carried out by using a laboratory scale twin-screw extruder with three different screw configuration for corn grit with the water addition fixed at 15% of the powder feed rate. As the increase of feed rate, while extrusion temperature(ET), specific mechanical energy input (SME), and residence time(RT) were showed the tendency to decrease, extrusion pressure(EP) was increased and as the increase of screw speed, ET, SME and EP were showed the tendency to increase, but RT was decreased. However, as increase the number of die hole, all system parameters were showed the tendency to decrease. The influence of the change in each process parameters was increased as the increase of the number of reverse element in screw configuration. In case of using the screw configuration with increasing number of reverse element at the condition of same process parameters, ET, SME and RT was increased, but EP was decreased. The functional relationships of the system parameters to the process parameters can be quantified by using multiple regression equations(mostly R-sq>0.90) and maped on suface response diagrams to expedite evaluation.

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Characteristics Analysis of the Fluid Power System for a Double-color Injection Molding Machine Development (이색 사출성형기 개발을 위한 유압시스템의 특성 검토)

  • Jang, J.S.
    • Transactions of The Korea Fluid Power Systems Society
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.24-31
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    • 2011
  • Double-color Injection molding machine is the assembly of many kinds of mechanical, fluid power part and electric electronic control system. From in these, fluid power is a part where becomes the first core of this machine. Fluid power systems of double-color injection molding machine are modelled and analyzed using a commercial program AMESim. Partial system models which is divided according to functional operation are made and its analysis results shows how design parameters work on operational characteristics like pressure, flow rates, displacement at each node and so on. Analysis modeling and compared the data which gets from experiment and the analysis result which has a reliability got data. The results made by analysis will be used design of fluid power circuit for developing a double-color injection molding machine.

Implementation of the simulated-Inductance with a Phase Paramenter Control Circuit (위상 파라미터 제어에 의한 의사 인덕턴스의 구성)

  • 최태호;김덕규
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.29-34
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    • 1983
  • A simulated inductance, with a phase parameter control circuit containing only two resistors and one operational amplifier, is realized as a two terminal network. Analytical results of the proposed circuit avow that we can realize a simulated inductance for constant inductance value, and experimental results confirm the theoretical predictions. Error of maximum 4%, between theoretical and experimental results of equivalent inductance, has been observed over a wide range of frequencies up to about 100 KHz.

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The Development and Evaluation of Cylinderical ROM-Media (원통형 롬-미디어의 개발과 평가)

  • Sung, Kap-Je;Cha, Sung-Woon
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2001.06c
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    • pp.445-450
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    • 2001
  • DVD(Digital Versatile Disk) is the data storage media devised to make high storage density and high data input/output possible. Therefore higher rotational speed and better accuracy in optical pick-up are required compared with the existing optical storage device. These operational functional requirements are concerned with abilities of optical storage device. Especially, High rotational speed is deeply concerned with the noise and vibration of optical storage device, is important problem in development of optical storage device so much. This paper propose a new concept ROM media of optical storage device named as Cylindrical ROM media, and evaluate this by means of Axiomatic approach and empirical data.

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